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3.1 AVERAGE
3.1 AVERAGE
PRECAUCIONES con esta novela: Es un splatterpunk, incluye escenas explicitas de violencia física y sexual hacia todo tipo de personajes.
Ante todo, deben revisar la edición que planean comprar y/o leer, pues como a la mitad me di cuenta la edición que tengo esta censurada, las ediciones más nuevas en ingles incluyen unas 200 paginas adicionales que inicialmente se decidió eliminar, ya sea por parte del autor o de la editorial. Más aun con dicha censura, esta novela tiene la esencia de un splatterpunk.
Es una novela sencilla de leer tanto por vocabulario como por estilo, aunque casi al final hay algunos nombres o se refieren a cierto personaje por su apellido lo que me creo confusión y tuve que buscar en capítulos anteriores a quien se referían. La lucha final es un poco caótica, además me sorprendió la actitud de un personaje que se volvió medio berserk. También me hubiese gustado un poco más de desarrollo en la explicación del porque el lugar termino como lo hizo, tal vez en la edición más completa haya algo.
Odie a cierto personaje que creo es lo más inútil que he leído en novela de terror alguna. Barbara en La noche de los muertos vivientes contribuyó más!! ¿Cómo rayos se es tan imbécil, que sus acciones metan en graves problemas a otro personaje, y no recibir un buen castigo al final? Ahí me fallaste Laymon, debió recibir más.
A pesar de estar censurado, creo seria interesante lectura para aquellos que deseen iniciarse en el subgénero.
"No me han tocado —respondió la niña—. Pero yo sí. Caramba, cómo les toqué" Jenny.
XDDDDDD cierto es!
Ante todo, deben revisar la edición que planean comprar y/o leer, pues como a la mitad me di cuenta la edición que tengo esta censurada, las ediciones más nuevas en ingles incluyen unas 200 paginas adicionales que inicialmente se decidió eliminar, ya sea por parte del autor o de la editorial. Más aun con dicha censura, esta novela tiene la esencia de un splatterpunk.
Es una novela sencilla de leer tanto por vocabulario como por estilo, aunque casi al final hay algunos nombres o se refieren a cierto personaje por su apellido lo que me creo confusión y tuve que buscar en capítulos anteriores a quien se referían. La lucha final es un poco caótica, además me sorprendió la actitud de un personaje que se volvió medio berserk. También me hubiese gustado un poco más de desarrollo en la explicación del porque el lugar termino como lo hizo, tal vez en la edición más completa haya algo.
Odie a cierto personaje que creo es lo más inútil que he leído en novela de terror alguna. Barbara en La noche de los muertos vivientes contribuyó más!! ¿Cómo rayos se es tan imbécil, que sus acciones metan en graves problemas a otro personaje, y no recibir un buen castigo al final? Ahí me fallaste Laymon, debió recibir más.
A pesar de estar censurado, creo seria interesante lectura para aquellos que deseen iniciarse en el subgénero.
"No me han tocado —respondió la niña—. Pero yo sí. Caramba, cómo les toqué" Jenny.
XDDDDDD cierto es!
dark
fast-paced
Quite entertaining for a quick read but nothing spectacular.
I have absolutely no idea what I just read.
I am partly fascinated. Partly appalled.
I will give Richard Laymon one thing - he definitely had his own style and followed his own rules.
I have no idea what to say! Part of me wanted to like it, yes, but the other part of me thinks this novel is completely inappropriate in so many ways and on so many levels. I just don't know what to say about it.
The town of Barlow has been plagued by a group of savages (??) that live in the surrounding wooded area. They have lived their for hundreds of years. Killers. Cannibals. Inbreeding so often that some of this group have become terribly deformed. To preserve their own families, the people of Barlow have been sacrificing strangers to the people in the forest. The Krulls. One night a group of strangers, who have been snatched from their lives trying to make it through town, decide to fight back.
I swear I have heard Laymon mention the Krulls in another book I read sometime at the end of the last year. I might be mistaken. If I'm not, it's interesting that he would bring up the same concept in two different books!
So, this is not safe for work. Please, keep this one at home and definitely don't read this if you're easily offended by a multitude of violent, disgusting situations.
I just don't know with this author anymore....
I am partly fascinated. Partly appalled.
I will give Richard Laymon one thing - he definitely had his own style and followed his own rules.
I have no idea what to say! Part of me wanted to like it, yes, but the other part of me thinks this novel is completely inappropriate in so many ways and on so many levels. I just don't know what to say about it.
The town of Barlow has been plagued by a group of savages (??) that live in the surrounding wooded area. They have lived their for hundreds of years. Killers. Cannibals. Inbreeding so often that some of this group have become terribly deformed. To preserve their own families, the people of Barlow have been sacrificing strangers to the people in the forest. The Krulls. One night a group of strangers, who have been snatched from their lives trying to make it through town, decide to fight back.
I swear I have heard Laymon mention the Krulls in another book I read sometime at the end of the last year. I might be mistaken. If I'm not, it's interesting that he would bring up the same concept in two different books!
So, this is not safe for work. Please, keep this one at home and definitely don't read this if you're easily offended by a multitude of violent, disgusting situations.
I just don't know with this author anymore....
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I have… so many questions.
This was bewildering. It was icky. I was confused the entire time. But it was fast paced and really impossible to anticipate the whole way through.
The equivalent of a gory slasher movie in book form, though the imagery and situations depicted here are more intense, disgusting, and visceral than would be allowed in even the nastiest of movies.
I was greatly surprised by how much sexual violence was in this book. The author was very, very interested in depicting sexual assault of women. Because the treatment of horror was so one-sided in that respect, I unfortunately have to knock this story down from 4 stars to 1 star. I would have been fine with rapes if men were also victims, or if sexual assault was used to characterize a specific character's arc, instead of as a shock-value enhancer obviously sprinkled across the entire story and forced into almost every situation.
Altogether it was a horrifying read, but the author is obviously victimizing women way more than necessary, which turns him into a real-life creep. Thus, it gets the worst rating possible, and if you can't understand why that matters, then here is a really fun read:
https://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/why-are-you-writing-a-rape-scene
I was greatly surprised by how much sexual violence was in this book. The author was very, very interested in depicting sexual assault of women. Because the treatment of horror was so one-sided in that respect, I unfortunately have to knock this story down from 4 stars to 1 star. I would have been fine with rapes if men were also victims, or if sexual assault was used to characterize a specific character's arc, instead of as a shock-value enhancer obviously sprinkled across the entire story and forced into almost every situation.
Altogether it was a horrifying read, but the author is obviously victimizing women way more than necessary, which turns him into a real-life creep. Thus, it gets the worst rating possible, and if you can't understand why that matters, then here is a really fun read:
https://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/why-are-you-writing-a-rape-scene
Apparently when this book was first published it was heavily edited (some with the author's begrudging acceptance, and some as a surprise - how it is that okay?) - so the author's daughter worked to find the original, as her dad wanted it published - and this is that version. (that sums up the "Here's What Happened" at the beginning of the book - if you haven't read this book before - wait to read that bit until the end)
I enjoyed the story, it didn't really have a purpose - or much of a plot - reminded me a bit of the movies "The Hills have Eyes" or "Wrong Turn" - not much character development (though there is some). A nice diversion.
I enjoyed the story, it didn't really have a purpose - or much of a plot - reminded me a bit of the movies "The Hills have Eyes" or "Wrong Turn" - not much character development (though there is some). A nice diversion.